• Prologue. Aux origines du service de santé des armées
• Les hôpitaux militaires de Lille et de Dunkerque au coeur des guerres européennes au XVIIIe siècle
• Larrey et Percy, deux chirurgiens rivaux pendant les guerres de l'Empire
• Continuité et évolution des morphologies architecturales des hôpitaux en temps de guerre. L'hôpital de Renkioi durant la guerre de Crimée et le Field Hospital de Beaune durant la Grande Guerre
• Les hôpitaux du front et de l'arrière durant la grande guerre
• Les hôpitaux militaires du Pas-de-Calais pendant la première guerre mondiale ou le système hospitalier du cataclysme
• 1914-1917 : la Grande Guerre du Service de santé se joue aussi à Brive
• Les hôpitaux militaires à Marseille pendant la première guerre mondiale
• Les hôpitaux militaires de Rouen durant la Grande Guerre
• Blessés et hospitalisés de la grande guerre
• L'hôpital auxiliaire n° 47 de la Compagnie des mines de Béthune pendant la première guerre mondiale. Archives et histoire
• L'organisation des services militaires médicaux à Paris durant la Grande Guerre. Le cas d'Henri Verly
• Le "colloque singulier" entre Georges Duhamel et les blessés de guerre (1914-1919)
• La médecine de guerre en 1914-1918
• "Les gueules cassées". L'essor de la chirurgie maxillo-faciale en 1914-1918
• La radiologie : rare vainqueur de la Grande Guerre
• La méthode Carrel de traitement des plaies infectées
• Le service de santé militaire français aux prises avec le paludisme sur les fronts oriental et occidental pendant la Grande Guerre
• Empreintes et prolongements du premier conflit mondial
• L'organisation de la lutte contre la syphilis pendant la Grande. Guerre fondatrice de l'intervention de l'État dans la lutte contre le péril vénérien
• L'empreinte de la Grande Guerre à l'Institut du cancer de Villejuif fondé par Gustave Roussy (1914-1940)
• La médecine militaire française à travers les timbres postaux
• Epilogue. Hôpitaux et médecine de guerre au temps présent
• L'impact de l'arrivée massive de malades réfugiés dans un asile psychiatrique : Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire (1939-1945)
• Hôpitaux, médecins et médecine dans la poche de Falaise-Chambois (fin de la bataille de Normandie, 12-22 août 1944)
• Les antennes chirurgicales en Algérie (1954-1962)
• L'évolution du concept de soutien médical jusqu'à aujourd'hui
• Conclusions du médecin général inspecteur Patrick Godart.

"L'importance des hôpitaux s'est affirmée au long des siècles, particulièrement en périodes de difficultés économiques et sociales. Les établissements hospitaliers, publics ou privés, ont notamment joué un rôle décisif en temps de guerre lorsqu'ils devenaient des structures indispensables pour l'accueil dès blessés. Ce volume, qui bénéficie de l'apport de nombreux spécialistes de différentes disciplines, étudie les rapports entre hôpitaux, médecine et blessés en temps de guerre, de la création du service de santé des armées, en 1708, jusqu'aux conflits contemporains avec une attention particulière portée à la première guerre mondiale. Il envisage aussi les transferts des innovations thérapeutiques et les changements organisationnels qui en ont découlé pour les périodes de paix."--Page 4 of cover.

"Comme dans toutes les armées d'Europe à cette époque, le service de santé aux armées français ne dispose pas des moyens dont il aurait besoin. Pourtant, la France fait figure de modèle avec des hommes exceptionnels dans les disciplines que sont la chirurgie, la médecine et la pharmacie, tant par leurs personnalités que par leurs inventions et leurs réalisations au service du soldat blessé et de l'être humain. Cet ouvrage présente de manière chronologique l'évolution du service de santé sur près de vingt-cinq ans, de la veille de la Révolution française à la fin de l'Empire : soins apportés, évolution des techniques, argot spécifique, témoignages, biographies des célébrités du monde médical. Le lecteur y trouvera aussi les repères législatifs utiles et comme toujours, une bibliographie très complète. Un ouvrage simple dans sa consultation qui donnera aussi bien satisfaction aux professionnels du monde médical qu'aux amateurs qui souhaiteraient avoir des connaissances plus précises sur ce sujet pendant cette période de notre histoire, où comme souvent, des événements dramatiques provoquent un dépassement des hommes et des avancées technologiques de premier plan. De plus, Main Pigeard nous offre ici une préface et une postface très inspirées par sa connaissance historique, mais aussi par l'émotion que peuvent provoquer des rencontres au-delà du temps."--Page 4 of cover.

• La désorganisation révolutionnaire
• La désorganisation révolutionnaire. (1792-1799)
• La tâche des officiers de santé aux armées
• Les compagnies de soldats d'ambulance
• Le consulat et la réorganisation
• Le Consulat et la réorganisation
• Le service de santé aux armées et le Premier Empire
• Le service de santé personnel de Napoléon
• Documents d'époque
• Le Service de Santé aux Armées sous le premier Empire
• L'uniforme
• Le règlement détaillé selon le guide du couturier de l'époque : le Malibran
• L'armement du service de santé
• Les maladies et leurs carnages
• Recrutement et conscription
• Causes de réforme
• Comment échapper à la conscription sous l'Empire ?
• Les Moyens de transport des blessés et du matériel
• Les matériels et remèdes utilisés
• Description des interventions
• Catalogue des blessures
• Catalogue des blessures des batailles
• La bataille de Waterloo
• Les dents de Waterloo
• Le service de santé face aux difficultés de batailles.

"Le service de santé français sous la Révolution, le Consulat et le premier Empire a réussi son évolution en permettant des soins de qualité et un soutien considérable à tous les hommes ayant participé aux campagnes de cette époque. Son organisation a suivi l'organisation militaire. Chaque soldat savait désormais qu'il ne serait plus oublié ni laissé à l'abandon. Ces grands noms, appelés leur père ou encore leur providence, ont servi avec honneur et professionnalisme, toujours au service des autres. 35 ans de recherche ont amené l'auteur à réaliser une synthèse unique en son genre. Les guerres de cette époque ne sont pas que combat mais aussi humanité. Cet ouvrage relate l'histoire de ce service médical, des règlements d'époque, et est illustré de documents et gravures d'époque."--Page 4 of cover.

• Etude sociologique
• Les lieux et les dates de naissance
• Parents et milieux d'enfance
• Les médecins militaires face au choix du célibat
• Médecins militaires, mariage et vie familiale
• Formation professionnelle des médecins des trois corps de santé militaires, leurs réactions aux découvertes microbiologiques de pasteur
• Les écoles de médecine navale et la formation médicale des officiers de santé de la Marine. Création de l'école principale de médecine Navale à Bordeaux
• Formation professionnelle des médecins de l'armée de Terre, Le doctorat, point de passage obligé vers la médecine militaire
• Les médecins militaires français et les découvertes pasteuriennes
• Evolution de carrières des officiers de santé des trois corps militaires français au cours du XIXe siècle
• Carrières des chirurgiens et médecins de la Marine entre 1834 et 1910
• Le Corps de santé des Colonies et Pays de Protectorat
• Le Service de santé de l'armée de Terre, 1834-1910
• Quelques médecins militaires français dans la guerre 1914-1918
• Soldes, Récompenses et Sanctions
• Pathologies et mortalité des médecins militaires français au XIXe siècle
• Comment redevenir civil après avoir été médecin militaire?

"Au XIXe siècle, l'armée française est engagée dans des combats nombreux et sanglants. Les médecins militaires doivent soigner des blessés innombrables, souvent sévèrement atteints par les armes modernes. La médecine militaire doit donc se structurer. Elle le fait en modernisant les écoles de médecine navale et les hôpitaux d'instruction des armées de Terre. L'école d'application du Val-de-Grâce ouvre en 1850. L'auteur nous fait vivre ces évolutions en suivant la carrière de plus de 30o médecins militaires et expose les difficultés auxquelles ils ont dû faire face. Alors que le corps de santé de l'armée de Terre tente de se libérer du joug de l'intendance, les médecins de la Marine affrontent les maladies tropicales."--P. [4] of cover.

• Zeitgeschichtlicher Hintergrund
• Veränderungen der politischen Großwetterlage
• Pariser Verträge
• Westeuropäische Union
• NATO
• Warschauer Pakt
• Neuaufbau deutscher Streitkräfte nach dem 2. Weltkrieg
• Bundesrepublik Deutschland
• Bundeswehr
• Sanitätsdienst
• Deutsche Demokratische Republik
• Nationale Volksarmee
• Medizinischer Dienst
• Greifswald in den Jahren 1955-1956
• Turbulenzen um einen Regierungsbeschluss
• 500-Jahrfeier der Universität
• Studium der Biologie
• Planungsfehler stellt die Weichen zur Medizin
• Irritationen
• Medizinstudium in Uniform
• Offiziersschüler im IV. Lehrgang
• Sport und Kultur
• Ein hartes Jahr zum Physikum
• Übergang zur Nationalen Volksarmee
• Offiziershörer und Heimschläfer
• Gründung einer eigenen Familie
• Klinische Semester
• Dissertation
• Staatsexamen
• Pflichtassistenz
• Truppendienst in der Volksmarine
• Das fachliche Umfeld in der Volksmarine
• Torpedoschnellboot-(TS)-Abteilung
• Torpedoschnellboot-(TS)-Brigade
• 6. Flottille
• Stralsunder Wohnung
• Erfahrungen im Truppendienst
• Annäherung von MMS, Universität und Stadt
• Entwicklung der Militärmedizinischen Sektion zwischen 1955 und 1964
• MMS wird Bestandteil der Universität
• Als Offizier zum Hochschullehrer
• Startphase
• Institutsräume
• Facharztkolloquium
• Erste Mitarbeiter
• Ungewisse Übergangsphase
• Greifswalder Wohnung
• Institut für Organisation des Gesundheitsschutzes
• Ausbildung und Lehrbasis
• Facharztlehrgänge
• Wechsel in Leitungsfunktionen
• Beginn wissenschaftlicher Arbeit
• Personeller Ausbau
• Titelkampf
• Größere Wissenschaftspotenziale
• Institut für die gesamte Militärhygiene (IgMH)
• Kontakte zu zivilen Einrichtungen
• Universität
• Referierabende
• Hauptvorlesung Sozialhygiene
• Medizinischer Verein
• Medizinische Fakultät
• Dienstbesprechungen des Rektors
• Sport
• Kreistagsabgeordneter
• Fachliche Außenkontakte
• Modelllehrgang für Führungs- und Leitungskader im Gesundheitswesen
• Gesellschaft Sozialhygiene
• Zusatzstudium Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsorganisation
• Internationale Kontakte und Auslandsreisen
• Warschau
• Leningrad
• Hradec Kralove
• Fakultät für Militärmedizin
• Gesellschaft für Militärmedizin
• Stellvertreter des Kommandeurs für Forschung
• Sportliche Aktivitäten
• Fußball
• Militärsport
• Abschied
• Greifswalder Erfahrungen
• Kritische Situationen während meines Wehrdienstes
• Mein Bruder flüchtet in den Westen
• Nicht alles, was gut gemeint ist, ist auch richtig
• Konvergenz als ideologische Bedrohung
• Von der Charite in die BRD
• Keine militärische Aufstiegsmöglichkeit mehr
• Rückkehr nach Greifswald
• Beispiele für erlebte persönliche Ausgrenzung
• Unterlaufende Zusage für Doktorandenbetreuung
• Politisierter Internetzugang
• Kein Weg führt an die Universität zurück
• Geschichtsloser Neuanfang?
• Jubiläum wird ignoriert
• Deutungshoheit zur Zeitgeschichte
• Trauerspiel bei einem Nachruf
• Trauerspiel ohne einen Nachruf
• Ahnengalerie mit Lücke
• Bewertung meiner Greifswalder Nachwendeerlebnisse
• Anhang : meine Herkunft
• Meine Eltern
• Kindheit in Stettin
• Schule
• Krieg und Bombenangriffe
• Kinderlandverschickung nach Baabe
• Jugendzeit in Greifswald
• Kriegsende
• Schule
• Bewährungsprobe Berufswahl
• Anlagen
• Verzeichnisse
• Anlagen
• Bilder
• Literatur
• Literatur zur Sicherheits- und Militärpolitik
• Der Autor stellt sich vor.

• Introduction : looking to the past for lessons ... to apply in the future
• Evolution of the European system of providing for casualties : Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance
• Evolution of the European system of providing for casualties in the Age of Enlightenment : France and Britain as the antecedents of the American system of care
• The American system of providing for the wounded evolves
• The Civil War
• From the Civil War to the World War
• The World War
• World War II
• Summary : What happened?---What have we learned?---How did we get here?

War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and -- until recently -- often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. Medical services have become highly organized and are state sponsored. Diseases are now prevented through vaccination and good sanitation. Sedation now ameliorates pain, and antibiotics combat infection. Wounds that once meant amputation or death no longer do so. Transfers from the field to more-capable hospitals are now as swift as aircraft can make them. The mental consequences of war are now seen as genuine illnesses and treated accordingly, rather than punished to the extreme. Likewise, treatment of those disabled by war and of veterans generally has changed markedly -- along with who supplies these and other benefits. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II. For each historical period, the author examines the care the sick and wounded received in the field and in hospitals, the care given to the disabled veteran and his dependents, and who provided that care and how. He shows how the lessons of history have informed the American experience over time. Finally, the author sums up this history thematically, focusing on changes in the nature and treatment of injuries, organization of services on and off the battlefield, the role of the state in providing care, and the invisible wounds of war.

• Introduction : looking to the past for lessons ... to apply in the future
• Evolution of the European system of providing for casualties : Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance
• Evolution of the European system of providing for casualties in the Age of Enlightenment : France and Britain as the antecedents of the American system of care
• The American system of providing for the wounded evolves
• The Civil War
• From the Civil War to the World War
• The World War
• World War II
• Summary : What happened?---What have we learned?---How did we get here?

War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and -- until recently -- often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. Medical services have become highly organized and are state sponsored. Diseases are now prevented through vaccination and good sanitation. Sedation now ameliorates pain, and antibiotics combat infection. Wounds that once meant amputation or death no longer do so. Transfers from the field to more-capable hospitals are now as swift as aircraft can make them. The mental consequences of war are now seen as genuine illnesses and treated accordingly, rather than punished to the extreme. Likewise, treatment of those disabled by war and of veterans generally has changed markedly -- along with who supplies these and other benefits. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II. For each historical period, the author examines the care the sick and wounded received in the field and in hospitals, the care given to the disabled veteran and his dependents, and who provided that care and how. He shows how the lessons of history have informed the American experience over time. Finally, the author sums up this history thematically, focusing on changes in the nature and treatment of injuries, organization of services on and off the battlefield, the role of the state in providing care, and the invisible wounds of war.

• 1 Front Matter-- 2 Summary-- 3 1 Introduction-- 4 2 History and Context-- 5 3 Implementation-- 6 4 Initial Results of the Integration Demonstration-- 7 5 Lessons Learned from Other Federal and Private-Sector Collaborative Approaches to Health Care Services-- 8 6 Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations-- 9 Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff-- 10 Appendix B: Framework for Evaluating Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense Health Care Collaborations-- 11 Appendix C: Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense Joint Ventures: Brief Histories and Lessons Learned-- 12 Appendix D: Collaboration Among Health Care Organizations: A Review of Outcomes and Best Practices for Effective Performance.
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The 2010 opening of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) created a joint entity between the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that replaced two separate centers in North Chicago. VA and DoD leaders envisioned a state-of-the-art facility that would deliver health care to both DoD and VA beneficiaries from northern Illinois to southern Wisconsin, providing service members and veterans seamless access to an expanded array of medical services. Unprecedented for the military and the VA, the Lovell FHCC would integrate clinical and administrative services under a single line of authority. The DoD asked the IOM to evaluate whether the Lovell FHCC has improved health care access, quality, and cost for the DoD and the VA, compared with operating separate facilities, and to examine whether patients and health care providers are satisfied with joint VA/DoD delivery of health care. Evaluation of the Lovell Federal Health Care Center Merger: Findings, conclusions, and Recommendations finds that initial implementation of the Lovell FHCC has provided important lessons about how to integrate VA and DoD health care services and has identified remaining obstacles that the departments could overcome to make such mergers more effective and less costly to implement. The IOM recommends that the VA and the DoD develop a comprehensive evaluation plan to objectively judge its success or failure, with measurable criteria, that would provide essential knowledge for both the Lovell FHCC and future endeavors.
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• Contents: Preface-- Introduction-- Notes on transcription-- Regimental Practice transcription-- Bibliography-- Index.
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• Preface-- Introduction: John Buchanan and his manuscript-- The learning process-- Buchanan's practice. Notes on transcription-- Text: Regimental Practice or A Short History of Diseases common to His Majesties own Royal Regiment of Horse Guards when abroad (Commonly called the Blews)-- Bibliography-- Index.
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In 1746, Dr John Buchanan, recently retired as a medical officer in the British Army, produced a manuscript entitled, "Regimental Practice, or a Short History of Diseases common to His Majesties own Royal Regiment of Horse Guards" when abroad (Commonly called the "Blews"). Revised in several stages almost until the time of Buchanan's death in 1767, this work was for the most part based on the author's observations while surgeon to a cavalry regiment serving in Flanders 1742-45, during the War of the Austrian Succession. It is a work of immense value to the understanding of eighteenth-century interpretation and treatment of diseases, but as yet has never been published. Presented here is an annotated modern edition of the text, with an introductory section setting the work in the context of Buchanan's life and career, and within the broader framework of eighteenth-century medical practice. Buchanan's practice of medicine generally represented the mainstream of professional practice as regarded both his understanding of disease and his treatment of it. Across the decades of the eighteenth century there were discoveries and fashions that impacted both the theory and the practice of medicine. Various writers of that age, as well as a number of historians since, have conveyed the sense that practice was chaotic. On the contrary, what this book argues is that methods used to treat diseases were fairly standard. Therefore, by reading Buchanan's manuscript one sees not only how he treated more than three dozen diseases, as well as various wounds and injuries, but also how these conditions were often treated in this period.
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In 1746, Dr John Buchanan, recently retired as a medical officer in the British Army, produced a manuscript entitled, 'Regimental Practice, or a Short History of Diseases common to His Majesties own Royal Regiment of Horse Guards when abroad (Commonly called the Blews).' Revised in several stages almost until the time of Buchanan's death in 1767, this work was for the most part based on the author's observations while surgeon to a cavalry regiment serving in Flanders 1742-45, during the War of the Austrian Succession. It is a work of immense value to the understanding of eighteenth-century interpretation and treatment of diseases, but as yet has never been published. Presented here is an annotated modern edition of the text, with an introductory section setting the work in the context of Buchanan's life and career, and within the broader framework of eighteenth-century medical practice.
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• @contents:Introduction. Waging Health-The US Army Medical Officer's Quest for Identity and Legitimacy
• 1. Practice, Status, Public Health and the Army Medical Officer, 1818-1890.
• 2. The Medical Officer in "The New School of Scientific Medicine", 1861-1898.
• 3. The Other War of
• 1898: The Army Medical Department's Struggle with Disease in the Volunteer Camps
• 4. Making the Tropics Fit for White Men: Army Public Health in the American Imperial Periphery, 1898-1914.
• 5. The Ascendance of Sanitation in the Army Medical Department and the Quest for Preparedness, 1901-1917.
• 6. Vice and the Soldier: The Army Medical Department and Public Health as Morality, 1890-1917.
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Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era. A period of tremendous social change, this time bore witness to the creation of an ideology of public health that influences public policy even today. The US Army Medical Department exerted tremendous influence on the methods adopted by the nation's leading civilian public health figures and agencies at the turn of the twentieth century. Public Health and the US Military also examines the challenges faced by military physicians struggling to win recognition and legitimacy as expert peers by other Army officers and within the civilian sphere. Following the experience of typhoid fever outbreaks in the volunteer camps during the Spanish-American War, and the success of uniformed researchers and sanitarians in confronting yellow fever and hookworm disease in Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Medical Department's influence and reputation grew in the decades before the First World War. Under the direction of sanitary-minded medical officers, the Army Medical Department instituted critical public health reforms at home and abroad, and developed a model of sanitary tactics for wartime mobilization that would face its most critical test in 1917. The first large conceptual overview of the role of the US Army Medical Department in American society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book details the culture and quest for legitimacy of an institution dedicated to promoting public health and scientific medicine.
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The Army manages the Department of Defense Serum Repository (DoDSR) of over 43 million serum samples and the associated Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS) database, whose primary use is for military health surveillance. RAND Arroyo Center examined the current capabilities of these resources to identify gaps and suggest strategies to improve their ability to meet current and future military health needs.
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• Introduction: The French Wars, Industrialisation and the Professions--
• 1. Army medical service--
• 2. Background--
• 3. Education--
• 4. Army Careers--
• 5. Professional Life Outside the Service--
• 6. Fortunes and Families--
• 7. Enquiring Minds--
• 8. Reflection.
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Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts the background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, sons' occupations, wealth at death, and broader social and cultural interests of the members of the cohort. It reveals the role that could be played by the nascent professions in this period in promoting rapid social mobility. The group of medical practitioners selected for this analysis did not come from affluent or professional families but profited from their years in the army to build up a solid and sometimes spectacular fortune, marry into the professions, and place their sons in professional careers. The study contributes to our understanding of Britishness in the period, since the majority of the cohort came from small-town and rural Scotland and Ireland but seldom found their wives in the native country and frequently settled in London and other English cities, where they often became pillars of the community.
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• Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The French Wars, Industrialization, and the Professions; 1 The Army Medical Service; 2 Background; 3 Education; 4 Army Careers; 5 Professional Life outside the Service; 6 Fortunes and Families; 7 Enquiring Minds; 8 Reflection;
• Appendix 1 Description of Database;
• Appendix 2 List of doctors in the sample; Manuscript Sources; Bibliography; Index.

A detailed biographical study of the members of the army medical service during the Revolution and Napoleonic wars that charts their background and life both in and outside the army. It demonstrates how a group of medical practitioners from relatively humble backgrounds could use social contacts and experience forged in the army to become an established part of the educated British imperial elite. - ; Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service du.

• T. I. Referate anlässlich des Workshops des Arbeitskreises Geschichte der Wehrmedizin vom 20.-21.04.2004 in Leipzig
• T. II. Geschichte des Medizinischen Dienstes der NVA.

• DARPA on your mind
• Of machines and men
• Mind games
• How to think about the brain
• Brain reading
• Building better soldiers
• Enter the nonlethals
• Toward an ethics of neurosecurity.

"Would I do it all again?" David Mendelsohn muses to himself, 35 years later, as he stands outside the United Nations Headquarters building in Jerusalem, peering at a commemorative plaque that describes the bitter battle that his battalion, 161 of the Jerusalem Brigade, fought on that very spot in the Six Day War of 1967. As David reads the names of his fallen comrades, memories of them and of his 17 years of service in Israel's army come flooding back. And so he wrote this book. It holds many of those memories, beginning with him leaving Johannesburg in 1961 at the age of 17 to emigrate to Israel. On arrival he volunteers for the army, is trained first as an infantryman then as a combat medic, and finds himself, six years later, right in the war's front line and on active service. Whether fighting, tending to the wounded and dying, on patrol, on guard or on leave, little escapes his keen and honest eye. Later, he records both the extraordinary adventures he had and survived and the equally extraordinary and unforgettable men and women he came to know at such a momentous period in Israel's history, one that encompassed two major wars. At times achingly moving, at times wildly hilarious, always unflinchingly honest, this book reveals the man himself, and to read it is to come to know him, the times through which he lived, and the country for which he fought.
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• 1 Front Matter-- 2 Executive Summary-- 3 1 Introduction and History-- 4 2 Resources, Responsibilities, and Dynamics in the Military's Vaccine Mission-- 5 3 Current Status of Vaccines for Military Personnel-- 6 4 Recommendations with Accompanying Analysis of Limitations Imposed by Current Department of Defense Structure for Managing Acquisition of Vaccines Against Infectious Diseases-- 7 References-- 8 Appendix A: Reprint of the commitee's November 2000 Interim Report, Urgent Attention Needed to Restore Lapsed Adenovirus Vaccine Availability: A Letter Report,
• 9 Appendix B: Open Meeting Agendas-- 10 Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies.
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Infectious diseases continue to pose a substantial threat to the operational capacity of military forces. Protecting Our Forces reviews the process by which the U.S. military acquires vaccines to protect its warfighters from natural infectious disease threats. The committee found that poorly aligned acquisition processes and an inadequate commitment of financial resources within the Department of Defense vaccine acquisition process a " rather than uncleared scientific or technological hurdles a " contribute to the unavailability of some vaccines that could protect military personnel and, implicitly, the welfare and security of the nation. Protecting Our Forces outlines ways in which DoD might strengthen its acquisition process and improve vaccine availability. Recommendations, which include combining all DoD vaccine acquisition responsibilities under a single DoD authority, cover four broad aspects of the acquisition process: (1) organization, authority, and responsibility; (2) program and budget; (3)manufacturing; (4) and the regulatory status of special-use vaccines.
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• The King's army in Oxford, 1642-1646-- the army of Parliament, 1642-1646-- parliamentary administration of casualty care-- war in the Celtic nations-- casualty care during maritime conflict and overseas campaigns-- permanent military hospitals-- contemporary treatments-- nursing personalities of the civil war and interregnum.
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In the popular imagination, the notion of military medicine prior to the 20th century is dominated by images of brutal ignorance, superstition and indifference. In an age before the introduction of anaesthetics, antibiotics and the sterilization of instruments, it is perhaps unsurprising that such a stereotyped view has developed, but to what degree is it correct? Whilst it is undoubtedly true that by modern standards, the medical care provided in previous centuries was crude and parochial, it would be wrong to think that serious attempts were not made by national bodies to provide care for those injured in the military conflicts of the past. In this study, it is argued that both sides involved in the civil wars that ravaged the British Isles during the mid-17th century made concerted efforts to provide medical care for their sick and wounded troops. Through the use of extensive archival sources, Dr Gruber von Arni has pieced together the history of the welfare provided by both Parliamentarian and Royalist causes, and analyzes the effectiveness of the systems they set up.
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• The Wars Against France - 1793-1815-- The Regius Chair of Military Surgery at the University of Edinburgh 1806-56, and the Regius Chair of Military Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, Dublin 1855-60-- The Crimean War-- Education of Medical Officers During the Post-Crimean War Period-- Conclusions - the 19th Century - a Century of Conflict.
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Kaufman examines the training and status of British military surgeons during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Their management of the sick and wounded during the wars with France leading up to and including the Peninsular War is also described. He concludes with an analysis of the medical problems associated with the Crimean War. Using important contemporary texts, Kaufman describes the personalities who served in the British Army Medical Department during the late 18th and 19th centuries, when diseases caused a much higher mortality that injuries sustained in battle. Many military surgeons were only poorly trained, and the management of the sick and wounded only gradually improved over this period despite significant advances in medicine, surgery and hygiene. Government spending cuts after the Peninsular War greatly depleted the medical service of the army so that by the time of the Crimean War it was unable to cope with a European-style war. Deficiences were recognized and, in the case of the medical services, this led to the establishment of the Army Medical School in 1860. This analysis should be of interest to serving military medical officers and to historians and other researchers interested in the management of 18th and 19th century armies in times of peace and war.
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This book is the first history of the techniques, systems, and technologies used to evacuate wounded from the battlefield. Historically, the word "ambulance "described those facilities that provided temporary assistance to the wounded, thus distinguishing them from stationary hospitals where military personnel received more permanent care. Americans and British, however, applied the term to the two-to four-wheeled transport conveyances that carried wounded from the battlefield to the war hospitals. With the aid of fifty-four illustrations, John S. Haller traces the histories of both meanings of the word from the Napoleonic era through the Great War and its aftermath. He concentrates on the development of British and American evacuation procedures and technology with a focus on hand conveyances and wheeled vehicles. His intent is not to cover all aspects of medical evacuation but to accurately recount the common medical evacuation problems, incongruities, and controversies that existed for warring nations.
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